Originally Posted by
Mucy_DE
Those living near or in a hub will usually be worse off in Miles and More and for pricing but your best bet is going to the Balkans (Ljubljana, Split, Dubrovnik, Tirana etc.) or Athens and then connecting once or twice via Munich, Geneva or Vienna and then onwards to Frankfurt, Zurich or Brussels then further on to Tel Aviv for around 5xx to 6xx €..
Just to correct you, LJU has never been and is not in the Balcans, it is Central Europe, the Balcans start south of the Sava river, so a little lower than ZAG. And no, LJU (SLO) has never been Eastern Europe either.
Regarding your proposal for LJU/SPU/DBV/TIA those cities are all quite expensive to fly to, so is TRS, speaking of LH Group and other *A carriers, ZAG has sometimes decent fares, but is codeshare with OS, which is not appealing on thei DHC prop airplanes. Besides To/from LJU/TRS and KLU is quite difficult to get the cheapest fares, and those are limited from W onwards, and Z in business.